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Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter. Using a large sample of Indian districts from the 1983-1999 period, the authors find that...
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Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can be used to separate out a population …
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by proposing vulnerability lines that can be straightforwardly estimated with panel or cross-sectional household survey … are provided using panel data from the United States (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) and Vietnam (Vietnam Household … Living Standards Survey) for the period 2004-2008 and cross-sectional data from India (National Sample Survey) for the period …
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intensity at the province level over period 2007-14 with a model of consumption at the household level in 2011. Provincial data …
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education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper …
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estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more … constructed from the census. The proposed estimator has fewer data requirements and weaker assumptions than common small area …
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It has been more than two decades since the widespread initiation of global power sector reforms and restructuring. However, empirical evidence on the intended microeconomic, macroeconomic, and quality-related impacts of reforms across developing countries is lacking. This paper comprehensively...
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demonstrates that these bounds are reasonably informative, using the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics where the panel structure …
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This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence …
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, using data from two firm censuses, as well as population census and trade data. The study is the first to use nationally …
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